Donald spoke to the hope that King's dream - articulated so eloquently 50 years ago Wednesday - would yet be realized. He spoke to the hope that racial profiling will one day go away. Donald spoke to the ideal that racism has an end date.

More than 100 people gathered in the park bordered by City Hall, the Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium and the Cesar Chavez Central Library to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

They were part of a Stockton prayer rally and send-off for a statewide bus tour launched to coincide with the 1963 march on Capitol Mall that brought 250,000 people to Washington, D.C.

Before Donald spoke, the Rev. Amelia Adams, City Councilman Michael Tubbs and several others stirred the crowd's emotions.

"We are still crying out against injustice," said Adams, the 66-year-old pastor of The Open House of Prayer, a nearby church and one of the organizers of the rally.

"Racism is still alive and active. Yes, Dr. King had a dream. He put his life on the line to carry it out. Are you willing to take a risk and step out of your comfort zone?"

Adams grieved at a society where a young man like Trayvon Martin could be killed and the man who shot him could walk free.

Tubbs, 22, drew cheers when he was introduced.

Like others, he lamented the rate of crime in Stockton and told of a reading session last year with grade-schoolers at Taylor Elementary School.

"I read the story of Dr. King, and when I turned the page to tell them about his assassination, one little boy raised his hand to tell me about his uncle who had been shot - and killed," Tubbs said.

"And then another kid said his aunt had been killed. All 30 students knew someone who had been shot right in the shadow of Martin Luther King Boulevard."

Tubbs said it was time to wake up and make King's dream a reality.

The Rev. Curtis Smith of Stockton's Destiny Christian Center helped close the rally and challenged the crowd to join a "night walk" through an adjacent neighborhood.

"There is no place in America that needs the dream more than Stockton," he said.

After a circle of prayer with participants holding hands, the modest march began. Two banners led the way. One read "Stop the Violence." The other: "Pray for Peace."

Smith is Donald's father, and he introduced his son, a Claudia Landeen School sixth-grader, just before the program ended.

Said the boy: "I have a dream that people of color would be able to walk down the street without getting killed. I have a dream of a good job and being paid fairly. I have a dream that I could live anywhere I want without the neighbors looking at me as a threat.

"I have a dream when they see me, they will see God. Because God is in me, and I am love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. I am not a threat. I am the future."